San Antonio Independent School District trustees will give day-to-day control over three academically struggling campuses to a charter operator with a track record of improving student outcomes.
The move could help delay a potential state takeover and bring in more funding for the district. Trustees voted 5-2 on Monday to let Third Future Schools, a charter network based in Colorado, run Tafolla Middle School and Ogden and Hirsch elementaries starting next year. Trustees Stephanie Torres and Jacob Ramos opposed the decision.
“I feel sad that you want to change my school and my teachers,” said 12-year old Andreez Martinez, a sixth grader at Tafolla. “It is not fair, and it makes me not want to go to school anymore.”…